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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Tutorials
- Views and Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Calculation Overview
- Operators
- Functions
- Abs (Absolute Value)
- Avg (Average)
- Date (Current Date)
- DayName
- DayOfMonth
- DayOfWeek
- DayOfYear
- Exp (Exponentiation)
- FV (Future Value)
- Hour
- If
- Int (Integer)
- Left
- Length
- Ln (Natural Logarithm)
- Log (Base 10 Logarithm)
- Lower
- Max (Maximum)
- Middle
- Min (Minimum)
- Minute
- Mod (Modulus (Remainder))
- Month
- MonthName
- Pi
- PMT (Payment)
- Position
- Proper
- PV (Present Value)
- RecordCount
- Replace
- Replicate
- Right
- Round
- Second
- Sign
- Sqrt (Square Root)
- Sum
- Time
- Trim
- Trunc (Truncate)
- Upper
- Year
- Functions — Quick Reference
- Functions Sorted by Type
- Technical Information
- Glossary
Defining Objects
Designing a Form - 148
the other two centimeters high, for example, each would be
resized to three centimeters high.
6 Click
OK
to apply the changes.
Defining a Table Cell
A table cell contains a fill text object by default. See “Defining a Fill Text
Object” on page 138 for information. See any relevant entry in this
section if the table cell contains another type of object.
A table cell can contain more than one object. It can also contain
graphics. See “Placing Objects in Table Cells” on page 162 for
information.
Defining a Fill Graphic Object
Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu to open the Fill Graphic
Definition dialog box when a fill graphic object is selected.
1 Type a unique name in the
Name
text box.
Each object must have a unique name. A descriptive name such
as
Logo
makes a fill graphic field easy to find when importing,
exporting, and changing tab order.
2Select
Tab Stop
so that the cursor automatically moves to the
selected field when the user presses the Tab key. Deselect
Tab
Stop
so that the cursor tabs past the selected field.
3Select
Help Message
to type a message that appears in the status
bar in fill view when the cursor is in that field.
See page 140 for an example of a help message.
4 Click
OK
to apply the changes.